Left column: Old icons Right column: New icons I have two reasons to redo them: Readability is not so great for quite a few of them, so this is an attempt to improve this. Maybe you can tell me if this is an improvement or not. The second reason... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Starting to look into replacing icons; this is really looking nicer, especially when zoomed. I can now modify thickness and use outlines! More important: Improving the instruction icons. Testers had problems recognizing these and I have to address these issues. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Using SVG (that need to be reduced to a single path) now for icons; comparing with the previous icons on 200%+ scale factor. So now I have to draw a ton of SVGs. On the upside: That will free quite a bit of my texture atlas space. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Since I added UI scaling, I have various problems: pixelated icons and color bleeding. I just added a discord button and decided to try out making a font with the discord logo so it uses the font rendering system... and it works. Maybe I should replace all icons with font glyphs... #gamedev

I want to replace the current campaign screen with something that can tell a story... So I want to make a map. Not overly complex - quite simple tiles. So far, it looks like this could be doable. But I need some editor for these tiles... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Oh boy, I added 9 bytes to my game ... Can't help but finding this hilarious 😅

On my way to #amaze2026 in Berlin. Let me know if you want to connect and meet! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

I should just finish the level with some decorations, but when I look at the menu ... I get the urge to redesign it so it becomes actually usable. Currently it is quite uncomfortable. But hey, at least I am still working on #8-bitBot 😏 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I am still working on 8-bitBot! But I have very little time and motivation is a bit of a problem. I am also working on boring things that are not very interesting to post about. E.g., I am currently centralizing the translation texts 😩 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame

After spending much time on different things, I finally added a new tutorial that is explaining how the call-instruction works. At this point, I am not going to polish the tutorials. Before doing that I want to implement the majority of tutorials before going over them in a 2nd pass. #gamedev

I didn't really expect my 2012 license to still work today, but it was worth a try 😅

VS code's intellisense became recently very slow; like taking 2-10s after nearly every change... So I decided to try clangd for suggestions. Felt faster, but it showed over 300 errors and warnings due to bad configs. It took me like 6h using google/chatGPT to fix that 🥲 #gamedev

Funneling all dev hotkeys I scattered throughout my game, I decided to add a quick search in game to help me remember what I already have (judging my previous post, I don't seem to be good recalling stuff). #gamedev #raylib

After rearranging a few lines, I am left with ... this? Looks like I really like counting frames. #gamedev #raylib

I am doing some very boring stuff right now: setting up a release build pipeline. Demo version, paid version, web demo version. Hiding builtin dev tools, stripping dev content loading, adding license stuff... I think this will keep me busy for a while. #gamedev #raylib

I should have done this a long time ago: Taking care of making release builds. Not because I am going to release this, but because this way I can have a working snapshot build history that I can revisit for comparison... #gamedev #raylib

I managed to do only very little during the week. Some bug fixes here and there and trying to work out the goto-instruction tutorial. The huge "Skip Tutorial" button was in the way a lot, so I am trying to relocate it to the top bar. Maybe it could be a bit more distinct... #gamedev #raylib #solodev

New #devlog video: https://youtu.be/eGd3h0nZ1Yw I am trying to cut down the time of making these videos, because I have such a lack of time right now. So this time I tried editing the video from different takes - which is something I haven't really tried doing before. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev […]

This is the first game play experience how it looks like right now with the "Level Solved" finish animation. Apart from the missing sound effects and some highlights to draw attention to the campaign map button, I think this looks ok - what do you think? #gamedev

Still setting up this animation - but I guess I can go with this state for now and proceed to implement the whole level solved animation to see how it feels when actually playing the game. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Trying out some text effects for the animation thing... I am not sure if it really fits the game. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

My lack of free time is very profound right now, so I make very little progress only. But it is also difficult to work out how solving a level is to be celebrated. I have now a rough concept and have to implement it, little by little. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

This is 8-bitBot: A programming puzzle game that I am working on and aiming to release in 2026. I started working on this in July 2025. Steam wishlisting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959370/8bitBot/ Playable demo (a bit outdated) […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Next thing I have on my rework-list: The won game popup. Instead of that popup, I want to move this info into the regular UI ... though I am currently unsure how this fits into the game play flow, especially in regards of satisfaction of having solved a level. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

After a day of tinkering, I found a way to run my dev stack on my phone (a foldable), running vs code and compiling and running 8-bitBot. The GPU performance is questionable (10fps), but it runs and can be used. Setup: termux + termux-x11 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #android

I worked on the next devlog, but it will take another day before I can upload it ... having not much time at all right now :( #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame

Just noticed that this screen needs also a rework. I think it makes sense to show the campaign board and the level solution playback. Since the campaign can have non-linear levels, the "next level" selection makes no sense any more. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I think this can count as "finished". It is less spectacular than I was aiming for, but ... I can come back at it when I have "finished" the other missing parts. Next things to work on: Adding SFX playback to the intro cut scene and adding an outro cut scene. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

It's not fully done yet and I have so many more ideas what I could do with this PCB board design in the UI - but, I think I am procrastinating here. I have to finish this rework and get the intro done, too (some SFX is missing). #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I had a couple of ideas that I find very intriguing; I have replaced the binary states that LEDs used with 32bit integer registers and LEDs point to individual bit values. The LEDs in this video show the current startup time in milliseconds in binary form. I love this. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

HA! It works. The LED to the next unlocked level is lit. The thing that's special about it: The layout of the circuit board is a text file and the lit state is configured in the text file. I have some creative ideas what to do with it, hehehe 😏 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Working on the LED renderings... fine tuning individual pixel appearances. The 3d effect is more or less sprite stacking. Except I am not using sprites but individual quads. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Quite a bit too much effort just for "fluff graphics". As always, I kind of struggle to set myself proper boundaries. But then again, interesting looking graphics are for me the easiest kind of marketing. At least I _hope_ that it looks interesting #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I've never designed PCBs and it probably shows now 🙃 It just needs to look a bit fancy. Now I'll need animated LEDs and resistors and capacitors. The format is, once again, used to feed a mini bytecode execution engine with data. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Maybe I'll make the whole popup look like an ISA circuit board. The left and right level previews would become integrated displays. I could even pixelate them and use a lowres LCD filter on it... Then again, I have to finish the game at some point 🙃 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Work in progress comparison of the ongoing design refinement of the campaign level selection. I want to convert the grid of buttons into a circuit board. I have a rough idea in my head how this could look in the final implementation ... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I've just uploaded a new devlog video about last week's progress 🥳 https://youtu.be/EPEmIEZpI5Y

The cutscene I work on is like 80% done and I start wondering how I will integrate it. I think I want to change this campaign overview a bit; A button for each encountered cutscene. Grid aligned buttons. Levels that have conditions to become available... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

🤣 I am trying to get this view set up to make the bot look like it is talking, but now I am laughing more than reasonably making sense. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I want to render another 3d model into a render texture, so I am using the same code path as for the tutorial character and ... something breaks and it affects other systems, too. No crash. Just broken. Moments I want to flip the table. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Sidenote: I am getting more comfortable with editing my recordings (took me long enough). After using #openshot in the beginning, I switched now to #shotcut and I find the handling more convenient. I am not using anything fancy; just cutting out audio takes and video parts. Easy enough. #gamedev

There a few things I need to get the first rough version of the cutscene working: - Control props from tutorial (switch on/off) - Speech bubble character must be exchangeable - Play sounds via tutorial script I think that would suffice as minimal feature set #gamedev #raylib #indiegame

Back to the cut scene, I am confused why I see nothing. At least the lights of the modem tell me, that a level got loaded 🙃 Not sure what I broke here. Probably I added some new setting and now I am ... oh right. I added the max light attenuation, which probably is 0 here 🙈 #goodwetalkedaboutit

Crazy day yesterday, I didn't get to work on 8-bitBot at all. I did, at least, add a new puzzle. Now working on the last bits of functionality for the reworked object editing: Snapping. Gamepad input handling for this menu is also on my to-do list 😵‍💫 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Busy day, very little time to work on this. But most buttons are now functional. Snapping is still missing. Next to some other bits - and improvements I would like to have on top... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

The 3D icons for manipulating the objects were quite a hack and I wanted to replace it for quite some time. I think I found another hack to make it work without rewriting much of that code 🙃 This might even handle gamepad input 🤔 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

A very short video I made on how I notice how lighting effects the visual appearance of my levels and revisiting these levels to add lights too every level in the game: https://youtube.com/shorts/VQMl9ELcGAs?feature=share

Trying to refine the instruction stack operation icons ... I always find it difficult to compress something abstract into an icon. But that's probably hardly surprising XD #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I was well entertained this morning by Frothy's latest video on youtube about an indie game demo he recently tried out! I can only recommend to subscribe to his channel, his videos are really fun to watch! https://youtu.be/l6z9PKLEw3Y?si=dY4OzvcYGw74ahCH #indiegames #youtube

A test level that uses the new instruction stack instruction. I wonder if the icons are clear enough... One side thought: I could make a font with these icons and then I could use the SDF font renderer for it - which would allow dynamic effects like outlining or shadows... #gamedev #raylib #solodev